Overview:

Organizations are becoming increasingly aware that traditional signature-based antivirus approaches do not provide adequate defense against modern threats and targeted attacks. This is exacerbated by the hundreds of thousands of new malicious software applications being rolled out daily, making it extremely difficult to protect against all potential threats. Without proper protection, you risk losing private company data that resides on endpoints. In addition, the machines can be used as a springboard for malicious threats to enter the network. This increases the need to safeguard data and machines against both inadvertent end-user behavior or unauthorized infiltration and the resulting execution of new unwanted or malicious applications.

Trend Micro Endpoint Application Control allows you to enhance your defenses against malware and targeted attacks by preventing unknown and unwanted applications from executing on your corporate endpoints. With a combination of flexible, dynamic policies, whitelisting and blacklisting capabilities, as well as an extensive application catalog, this easy-to-manage solution significantly reduces your endpoint attack exposure. For even greater insight into threats, user-based visibility and policy management are available in the local administration console or in the centrally-managed Trend Micro™ Control Manager™.

Employs dynamic policies to allow users to install valid applications based on many reputation-based variables such as prevalence, regional usage, and maturity

Platform Architecture

Trend Micro Endpoint Application Control can scale up to 20,000 endpoints per server and more with a cluster of servers or multiple servers managed by Control Manager. As an on-premises software application, Endpoint Application Control integrates with other Trend Micro threat protection solutions to enhance overall malware protection. Two components are required:

Server installs on supported Windows platforms and is managed through a web-browser

Agent installs on supported Windows platforms

Complete User Protection

Endpoint Application Control is part of the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suites™. These interconnected, multi-layered security suites protect your users and their data regardless of the device they use, or where they are working. The Smart Protection Suites combine the broadest range of endpoint and mobile threat protection capabilities with multiple layers of email, collaboration, and gateway security. And, you can manage users across multiple threat vectors from a single management console that gives you complete user-based visibility of the security of your environment.

Trend Micro Control Manager

This centralized security management console ensures consistent security management and complete visibility, policy management, and reporting across multiple layers of interconnected security from Trend Micro. It also extends visibility and control across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models. Centralized management combines with user-based visibility to improve protection, reduce complexity, and eliminate redundant and repetitive tasks in security administration. Control Manager also provides access to actionable threat intelligence from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, which uses global threat intelligence to deliver real-time security from the cloud, blocking threats before they reach you.